HAWK-800
Firmware for Poly-800 / EX-800 (Korg)
Hardware-plus-firmware upgrade for the Poly-800 and EX-800 with expanded MIDI (NRPN, SysEx dumps), an arpeggiator, extra LFOs, selectable filter slope and flash patch storage. Kits are no longer sold.
- Distribution
- Prebuilt image you flash yourself
- License notes
- No license is stated on the SourceForge project page. The project page says source assembly code is posted there.
- Source
- sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/projects/hawk800/
- Homepage
- hawk800.com https://www.hawk800.com/
- midi
- lfo
- filter
- synth-engine
- performance
Description
The project page says over 5,000 kits were sold between 2007 and 2021. Features include an arpeggiator, expanded and super LFOs, resonance modulation, a 24 or 12 dB per octave filter slope, DCO harmonic modulation, extreme resonance and quasi-FM modes, MIDI clock sync, chord sync, cascade mode for two units and patches stored in flash (four banks of 64 on later kits). The SourceForge project hosts the 2.68a firmware zip and says assembly source is posted there, with no license stated. The kits have been unavailable since 2023 and the author is working on a successor, the HAWK-832.
Install notes
Needs the HAWK-800 hardware board installed in the synth; the firmware zip on SourceForge is for existing kits.
Version history
| Version | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2.68a | undated | Latest firmware zip on the SourceForge project, which lists a last update of 2024-01-04; no release date is given for the version itself. |